Deleted scenes that have never been seen

Quite a bit of stuff from Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman was cut out. Originally the Monster (Lugosi) was supposed to be able to talk and was blind. They decided to not have the Monster speak and made no mention of his blindness.

Supposedly in one scene cut out Chaney Jr. tells the Monster that he turns into a wolf during a full moon and the Monster says, "You're kidding me"...

This is all stuff I've learned from a great classic horror forum that has extremely knowledgable posters...I hope this is all true.

A friend of mine is a Robert Altman fanatic and he wishes against all probability that all the extra footage shot for Nashville would be released in a deluxe DVD set. I suspect Altman probably overshot for most of his films, given the way they're constructed, and then edited them down to what he wanted.

There was a massive amount of footage Capra shot for Lost Horizon (1937) that got cut, rendering even the existing "restored" version just barely coherent. That film could have (and probably should have) been 3 hours long. All that extra footage was unfortunately destroyed or lost.

an alternate, suppressed, happy ending to the film Casablanca. The final reel shows Rick Blaine and Louis, who draws a gun. Sam the pianist pushes his console piano into the gunman. Hitler pops out of the top of the piano holding a hand grenade, but Ilsa parachutes onto the piano and closes the lid, killing Hitler with his own grenade. Ilsa Lund and Rick marry.

The ending, variously described as "unbelievable" by Lisa Simpson, and "great" by Bart Simpson, finishes with "The End?" with the question mark leaving the door open for a sequel.

"Blazing Saddles" - several additional scenes where they tried to kill Alex Karras' character "Mungo"; used in the TV print to fill out the running time of the movie but never seen on any home video print I've ever seen

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Right! The scene where Mungo is in the diving suit was cut. I'd seen the film on TV first, then rented the video. I actually returned the video and complained that the entire film wasn't there!

Quite a bit of stuff from Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman was cut out. Originally the Monster (Lugosi) was supposed to be able to talk and was blind. They decided to not have the Monster speak and made no mention of his blindness.

Supposedly in one scene cut out Chaney Jr. tells the Monster that he turns into a wolf during a full moon and the Monster says, "You're kidding me"...

This is all stuff I've learned from a great classic horror forum that has extremely knowledgable posters...I hope this is all true.

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I would love to see all that footage. I'm a huge fan of the Universal Frankensteins. All 7 of them. According to the Universal Film Script Series of books on the Frankenstein movies, it's true, all that footage was shot but unknown if it still exists. I don't think it would have improved Bela's performance as the monster, he just was NOT made for that role, but the movie would have made more sense. Where is this horror movie forum??

The closing of DOUBLE INDEMNITY which has the scene in the gas chamber.

The opening of LOST HORIZON which starts just like the book. The first 20 minutes were burned and the film starts in mid-stream. A stroke of luck for Capra. George Lucas took the same wise approach for the opening of STAR WARS. Either we "latch on" and go with the movie or we are left behind.

Well, if you want to be technical about it, they have been seen - and I've seen them!
I don't think anyone's seen the Wampa subplot from 'Empire Strikes Back' or the sandstorm scene from 'Return of the Jedi' though.

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You guys need to seek out the fan documentaries "Deleted Magic", "Building Empire", and "Returning To Jedi". They integrate all known deleted material, outtakes, behind-the-scenes footage, home movies, and production stills into each film, to show what went into (or got left out of) making them. The Wampa and Sandstorm scenes are well-reconstructed using stills and text.

If you just want to see the Biggs Darklighter and other scenes that only showed up (in their entirety, I might add) on the CDRom, there's also a DVD called "The Lost Scenes" making the rounds. I obviously can't tell you where to find any of these DVD's, since they're not official, but they're quite popular.

Side note: They just recently released a Biggs Darklighter action figure! And he's wearing his outfit from those deleted scenes in question. There's also a Luke Skywalker in his "moisture farmer" outfit. The irony--two figures from scenes that Lucas won't even see fit to put as "special features/deleted scenes" on his own DVD's!

One scene from Full Metal Jacket, where the soldiers reportedly played with the severed head of the sniper.

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OMG! You're kidding! That would have been in such poor taste.

That reminds me of the story that in Frenzy, Hitchcock filmed shots of saliva dripping off the tongue of the strangled woman and falling on her chest. But he was talked out of the idea before editing took place, so the shots were never inserted.

You guys need to seek out the fan documentaries "Deleted Magic", "Building Empire", and "Returning To Jedi". They integrate all known deleted material, outtakes, behind-the-scenes footage, home movies, and production stills into each film, to show what went into (or got left out of) making them.

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I've seen "Deleted Magic," but I didn't know they had actually completed further entries for the other films. I thought they were still "in progress."

Nobody can say "Thank You For Smoking" to Katie Holmes...because her husband supposedly insisted her most "smoking" scenes from that film were extinguished.

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I'll have to look into this further to see if there were some other scenes, but a rumor very similar to this started because at one film festival, the projectionist trimmed the end of a reel by mistake and elminated a sex scene with Holmes in it. At the Q&A afterwards, Jason Reitman, the director made a comment about the scene being gone, starting the rumor mill...

You guys need to seek out the fan documentaries "Deleted Magic", "Building Empire", and "Returning To Jedi". They integrate all known deleted material, outtakes, behind-the-scenes footage, home movies, and production stills into each film, to show what went into (or got left out of) making them. The Wampa and Sandstorm scenes are well-reconstructed using stills and text.

If you just want to see the Biggs Darklighter and other scenes that only showed up (in their entirety, I might add) on the CDRom, there's also a DVD called "The Lost Scenes" making the rounds. I obviously can't tell you where to find any of these DVD's, since they're not official, but they're quite popular.

Side note: They just recently released a Biggs Darklighter action figure! And he's wearing his outfit from those deleted scenes in question. There's also a Luke Skywalker in his "moisture farmer" outfit. The irony--two figures from scenes that Lucas won't even see fit to put as "special features/deleted scenes" on his own DVD's!

An obvious example would be the Jitterbug from the Wizard of Oz. Imagine being one of the members of the "test audience" that got to see the movie with this scene, only to be cut for the theatrical release and never to be seen again.

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Yes! That home movie footage of the scene synced up with the song looks really great. There are a lot of Oz scenes that were deleted and are now lost.

Right! The scene where Mungo is in the diving suit was cut. I'd seen the film on TV first, then rented the video. I actually returned the video and complained that the entire film wasn't there!

Was this footage ever put back in for a DVD release?

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The scene where Mongo is convinced by Bart to dive down the town’s well to search for treasure, as well as a scene where Mongo duels with a mechanical sheriff are included as extras on the Blazing Saddles "30th Anniversary Special Edition" DVD. A few other scenes exclusive to the broadcast version are on there as well - extended versions of the recruitment line scene and the tollbooth scene, and censored versions of the campfire scene and the "I’m Tired" song.

That's good to know. I bought the first DVD release and I'm getting a little tired ("I'm tired.....tired of....Oh, never mind) of buying the same title over and over just to get a few new crumbs. Still, I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff.